Donated to the poor by a eunuch official to the caliph, who couldn’t leave it to heirs, the endowment should have been eternal – but then the Crusaders arrived The…

Separatist rhetoric among Bosnian Serb leadership is raising concerns about the dissolution of Bosnia. It’s part of a nationalist wave across the Balkans that threatens a return of ethnic conflict.…

Amidst “truly unprecedented levels” of hunger in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that as winter arrives, avoiding widespread starvation “is an immediate priority”.   Launching a global fundraising winter campaign to help forcibly displaced families in Afghanistan…

Road accidents are still responsible for 1.3 million annual deaths and 50 million injuries all over the world, but the United Nations has a Global Plan to halve road deaths and injuries…

As I eagerly await Spotify’s year-end report on my most-played songs of 2021, I wonder which ones will remind me of my summer in New York City—of off-pitch Karaoke Television…

At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste…

Black Catholics push back against an archbishop's claim that social justice movements are "pseudo-religions." November is Black Catholic History Month, but the faithful’s ignorance of the historical issues of race,…

Those who deny that Trump praised racists as “very fine people” are now pushing revisionist versions of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Despite a jury’s $25 million verdict against…

What will it cost to get greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by mid-century, and are people around the world prepared to pay it? This was a question posed…

Richard Amoah went to Ghana for his father’s funeral and found himself barred from returning to Britain for two and a half years. Like other victims of the Windrush scandal,…